T-Mobile Moto X users getting mysterious soak test invites

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29 May 2014, 22:26posted on

Soak test invites aren't really anything out of the ordinary, but most of the time when an invite goes out, we can hazard a guess as to what the test might be for. Today, T-Mobile Moto X users began getting soak test invites, but this time around, we don't really know what software could be about to start testing...

"Uh, no they don't. That is Motorola selling a generic unlocked GSM model for "Tmobile". There is NO specific "Tmobile" varient.

Go to Tmobile's site. The moto x is not sold there, PERIOD."
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First of all, this is no generic phone, you want a generic phone, go to amazon or ebay. This is a first party company making a phone both generally for no contract/contract consumers. They have only 5 models, att, verizon, sprint, tmobile, cricketwireless. If you dont know your imformation steady enough, I prefer you dont commment back. BTW, the phone can be used at 4g speeds.

There is NO model for cricketwireless. Cricket now is just aio wireless rebranded, and is really just Att. Get a Moto G through them, and it will be carrier AND bootloader locked unlike the one from Moto's website.

"If you dont know your imformation steady enough, I prefer you dont commment back. BTW, the phone can be used at 4g speeds."

I hate to break it to you, but it's not free. The cost is baked into the plan charges. The only difference with Verizon is they don't give you a discount when you buy full retail or bring your own device, others like T-Mobile do. So while you do pay the upfront cost of the phone, you'll also pay less on your plan, so it balances out. Verizon doesn't give anything away for free, they just say it is while offsetting the equipment cost with the monthly plan. Do you really think that they're eating $350 on every Moto X sold? They may want you to think that, but common sense says otherwise.

With Verizon subsidizing a phone, it usually figures out to around $17 a month baked into the plan to offset the device cost. That's figuring the full retail price of $600, minus an upfront cost of $200, and then dividing by 24 months. So that means that $400 is paid over the contract period. T-Mobile knocks off around $20-25 a month, which figures out to $440-548 over a contract period.

So if that reasoning is sound, a free Moto X on Verizon costs $400 over 24 months. Going with T-Mobile and figuring the lower $20 a month discount for going non subsidy, you'd save $90 over the course of the contract ($440-$350=$90).

The only problem with it being one of Moto's apps is that they've de-integrated them from the OS, so they can update them without having to do a full system update. Active Display, Touchless Control, & Moto Assist are all updated through the Playstore. So that being said, my money would be on the rewards program or 4.4.3.

Wouldn't that be something, if the Moto X gets 4.4.3 before the Nexus devices. As a Nexus 5 owner, I wouldn't be up in arms about it, but I'd probably give google the sarcastic slow clap gif that's been floating around the internet.

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